[Gllug] RE: [Glut] Official country code for Britain = GB or UK?

[Adrian McMenamin]

On Monday 15 Apr 2002 12:54 am, Formi wrote:
> On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 14, 2002 at 09:38:13PM +0100, Liam wrote:
> > > E. R. Vaughan wrote:
> > > FWIW I think "Great Britain" is archaic...
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Great Britain means England, Scotland and Wales.
> >
> > Whatever the legal meaning, "Great Britain" is so called to distinguish
> > it from "Lesser Britain" i.e. Brittany.
>

FWIW, the Irish (ie Irish langauge) term for Wales means "Lesser (or Little) 
Britain". There is nothing imperialistic about talking about Great Britain.

>  It reminds of the great ability of the inhabitants of these islands
>  to make something simple really complicated.
>
>  All this different ways of calling the country sound to me as the
>  love to classify too much, people are asian, black jamaican, black
>  africa, white british, or bloody foreign (pleased to be called that) ....
>
>  Have you read about how foreign countries praised the "Queen Mother
>  Funeral", saying "Nobody does it better than the english".
>
>
Well that;'s the *English* for you !!!!


>  If only were they speaking about something actually useful, like the NHS,
>  tube, ...
>
>
>               Me talking rubbish as usual.
>
> 						Formi.


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